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Originally Posted by StriperFan
Definetly looks like there is some green sunfish in the mix. As to the hybrid thing, a true hybrid cant reproduce, mules and wipers for instance. But sunfish are like dogs, they look different but are genetically similar enough to interbreed, and keep breeding. Basically they are more like different varieties of the same species. I don't know where the line gets drawn here. Now I have more questions than answers. Two totally different species should make a hybrid that does not reproduce, but with sunfish....Who has a PHD in biology, I'm confused.
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The Bluegill is not a true hybrid. Those fish were all the rage when they first came about...Ken Holyoak....I think his name was....started all of the hybrid Gills with his Georgia Giant. What was never said at first that if you happen to get some males mixed with females or vice versa...you would get the F2 and then from them the F3 strain and so on. Then you wound up with a pond full of stunted sunfish after a few years. I stocked some in a small lake I owned back in 1986. I did not harvest the fish and that is what happened. People still stock them but most know that in a few years you will need to kill the pond off and start again....thus the stocking of the Copper Nose because of their growth rate and it is a natural strain of Bluegill. Now I am not a fisheries biologist...LOL......but this is my understanding of them.
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